Republican election fraud
Recently, the president again served up his stale argument that voter fraud had caused him to lose the 2020 election. Numerous investigations and lawsuits proved otherwise. Voter fraud is rare. The fraud Trump and his enablers engage in is election fraud, the systemic methods of fixing elections. Among these is gerrymandering, elimination of poll locations, limiting voting hours, etc. Trump is fixated on passing his “SAVE Act,” designed to deliver elections to the Republicans well into the future.
Trump’s insistence that millions of non-citizens voted to prevent him from winning in 2020 is misplaced. He’ll probably wrongly claim that the 6,600 non-citizens erroneously on the voter rolls of New Jersey strengthen his case. However, only about 400 of them actually voted. To change the outcome of an election, they would have had to disregard their personal opinions and to have all voted as a bloc for a Democrat in an election in which the Republican would have won by fewer than 400 votes. With more than 4.5 million votes cast in the 2020 presidential race in New Jersey, Biden won over 2.6 million votes and Trump garnered nearly 1.9 million votes, so even all the non-citizens on the voter rolls could not have changed the outcome.
Trump’s speech was purposed to press Congress to pass the SAVE Act and to sow distrust in our voting system. It’s time to reject Trump’s false claims and to face reality even if he cannot. We must insist Congress vote down the SAVE Act.